From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757769Ab3ILDin (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:38:43 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:53128 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543Ab3ILDim (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:38:42 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Greg KH Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay@vrfy.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lizefan@huawei.com References: <1378952949-7900-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20130912031912.GA9773@kroah.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:38:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130912031912.GA9773@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:19:12 -0700") Message-ID: <87eh8u4slj.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX19ijlCN897JmIj/CXv6ZpeZlPS8ahkQUDY= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.154.105 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.7 XMSubLong Long Subject * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0064] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa05 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa05 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Greg KH X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] sysfs: disentangle kobject namespace handling from sysfs X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:26:46 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:29:02PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'll send out multiple patchsets to separate out sysfs from driver >> core and kobject. The eventual goal is making sysfs modular enough so >> that cgroup can replace its nightmarish cgroupfs implementation which >> repeated and worsened all the past mistakes of sysfs. This patchset >> is first of the effort and separates out kobject namespace handling >> from sysfs. >> >> I never really understood why namespace support was added the way it >> was added. > > I just took the patches and didn't ask questions :) Greg you don't get to play dumb you asked questions and required most of the current strucuture of the code. The code is convoluted by your request. Eric